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11/21/2025

💥 Trap Bar Deadlifts - The Ultimate Athlete Builder

If you’re an athlete and you’re not using the trap bar, you’re leaving serious power on the table.

The Trap Bar Deadlift and its explosive variation - the Jumping Trap Bar Deadlift - build the foundation for speed, strength, and raw athletic power that transfers directly to your sport.

⚡️1️⃣ Safer, Stronger, Smarter Lifting

Unlike a barbell deadlift, the trap bar keeps the weight centered with your body, reducing stress on your spine and forcing your legs, glutes, and hips to do the work.

You build power in the exact muscles that drive sprinting, jumping, and change of direction.

🧨 2️⃣ Jumping Trap Bar Deadlifts = Explosive Power

This variation turns the lift into a power movement - teaching athletes to generate maximum force fast. You’re not just lifting heavy - you’re training your body to explode.

💥Benefits:

• Improves rate of force development - the key to quickness and speed.

• Mimics the triple extension (ankles, knees, and hips) that happen in sprinting, jumping, and striking.

• Builds elastic strength without overloading the joints.

🏋️3️⃣ Easy to Learn, Hard to Beat

The neutral grip and upright posture make it beginner-friendly - yet powerful enough for elite athletes. You can train max strength and speed with one piece of equipment.

Perfect for ⚾️🏈⚽️:

• Baseball players: Rotational Power + Hip Extension

• Soccer players: Jumping Ability + Acceleration

• Football players: Lower-Body Strength + Tackling Power

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📕 Welcome to Episode 1 of Red’s Athletic Performance - Athlete Inspiration Series. This episode is titled “Tiger Woods: ...
11/20/2025

📕 Welcome to Episode 1 of Red’s Athletic Performance - Athlete Inspiration Series. This episode is titled “Tiger Woods: 5 Lessons for Every Athletes Journey”

⚡️Each month we will have a new episode dropping!!

⚽️🏀🏈 Each month we will have a new source of inspiration/ story to share!! All designed to be a source of inspiration for Red’s Athletic Performance athletes and others alike. Stay tuned for more details…

🎵 The song has zero relevance to the slides 😂😂😂. Just the only song I could find with the limited selection on business accounts 😂. Hopefully that changes one day lol. Anyways I digress…

🎗️Thanks for the support as always everyone!! Red’s Nation is taking off 😂😂. We takin over 😤. Also, Nick… look for the Easter egg in this post. Let me know if yah find it haha.

🏋️RED’S ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE OFFER’S THE FOLLOWING SERVICES:• 1 on 1 Athlete Strength and Conditioning Training. • Small...
11/19/2025

🏋️RED’S ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE OFFER’S THE FOLLOWING SERVICES:

• 1 on 1 Athlete Strength and Conditioning Training.

• Small Group & Large Group Athlete Strength and Conditioning Training.

• Completed Multi-Week Strength and Conditioning Training Programs for Athletes.

⚡️So, what are you waiting for!!?? Sign up with us today by clicking the free consultation link in the bio or emailing us at: [email protected]

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11/16/2025

🚀 Sign up for some sessions with Red’s Athletic Performance today!! We do 1 on 1 sessions; team sessions and online programming!!

⚡️We help athletes achieve their dreams by designing customized/ comprehensive strength and conditioning programs that are designed to maximize their performance.

💥Sign up with us today!!

💪🏿 Great work by and during Tuesday’s workout 😤!!

Red’s Referral Program (how to participate):🚀 Tag someone in the comment section below (could be yourself)⚡️The referral...
11/11/2025

Red’s Referral Program (how to participate):

🚀 Tag someone in the comment section below (could be yourself)

⚡️The referral signs up for 5 sessions or more and you receive a free workout

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11/08/2025

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11/03/2025

Great session with the today!! One of the exercises we did were Prone T Raises 💪🏿.

The Prone T Raise targets the posterior deltoids, rhomboids, and middle traps - key muscles that stabilize your shoulder blade and control your arm during the deceleration phase of throwing.

When these muscles are weak, your rotator cuff and labrum take a hit - leading to shoulder pain, impingement, and even tears.

When they’re strong, you throw harder, recover faster, and stay healthy all season.

Give these exercises a try, next time you’re at the gym (catchphrase) lol.

11/02/2025

🏋️Why All Athletes Should Incorporate Cable Woodchoppers into their Exercise Routine 😤

😬 A lot of athletes only train rotation in one direction, but true performance comes from developing power and control through both movement patterns - high to low and low to high cable woodchops.

🔻High to Low Woodchoppers

This pattern emphasizes eccentric control and downward force production, training the obliques, lats, glutes, and transverse plane stability.

You’re learning to generate and decelerate rotational power, the same mechanics used when striking, throwing, or swinging downward.

Best for:

🥋MMA & Combat Sports - rotational strikes and overhands

⚾️ Baseball - batting and throwing follow-through (don’t really want to talk about baseball after the Jays loss last night 🥲)

🏒 Hockey - slap shots and checks

🏐 Volleyball - Spikes and serves

🔺Low to High Woodchoppers

This version trains concentric power from the ground up, emphasizing hip drive, upward rotation, and energy transfer through the kinetic chain.

It teaches athletes to initiate force from the legs and core which is essential for vertical and diagonal power patterns.

Best for:

🏀 Basketball - Jump shots and rebounding power

🎾 Tennis - Forehand/ backhand drive through the hips

⚽️ Soccer - Rotational balance and cross-body kicking mechanics

⛳️ Golf - Upward acceleration through the swing

⚡️WHY EVERY ATHLETE SHOULD DO BOTH

No matter the sport, athletes must produce and resist rotation in multiple planes. Training both directions improves:

✅ Power transfer efficiency - from ground to hands

✅ Core and hip stability - reducing injury risk

✅ Balance between agonist and antagonist rotational muscles

✅ Total body coordination - for real world movement

Rotation doesn’t exist in one direction and neither should your training.

Build strength both ways.

Move better. Perform better. Stay balanced. ⚖️

👉 TAG A TEAMMATE WHO NEEDS TO ADD THESE EXERCISES TO THEIR ROUTINE 💪

10/30/2025

⚽️ Great first session with our Elite Youth Soccer Players on Tuesday. The athletes did great 🙂!!

A properly structured exercise program is important for youth soccer players because:

⚡️More Power = Stronger Kicks & Faster Sprints

Weight training builds explosive muscles that help you accelerate quicker and strike the ball with more force.

⚡️Better Balance & Stability

Strong legs and a solid core keep you on your feet when fighting for the ball, so you won’t get knocked off the ball as easily.

⚡️Injury Prevention

A well trained body absorbs impact better. Strengthening the muscles around your knees, hips, and ankles keeps you healthy and in the game longer.

⚡️Improved Confidence & Control

When you feel stronger, you play stronger. Confidence on the field starts in the gym.

🏋️Start with good form, light weight/ bodyweight, and quality movement.

📈 Remember: Stronger players make faster, more explosive, and more confident athletes!!

Great first session with the today ⚾️!! This teams gonna be hitting bombs next season 🚀.
10/20/2025

Great first session with the today ⚾️!! This teams gonna be hitting bombs next season 🚀.

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